[Sumover-tech] Vic on a Mac

[Andrew Rowley]

Hi,

I have now installed ActiveState TCL, but when I run configure, it still tell me it is using the UCL tcl.  I tried --without-ucl-tcl and --with-tcl but it seems to get ignored.  When this gets built and I run it from the standard mac console, I get "Not a Tk application".  It is fine if I run it from the xterm window (although there are no devices other than x11).

I then tried editing the Makefile directly and forcing it to use the ActiveState Tk and Tcl installation.  I noticed that this is version 8.4 (you don't seem to be able to get an earlier version).  This resulted in compile errors:

vic_tcl.h: In member function 'char* Tcl::var(const char*, int)':
vic_tcl.h:77: error: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*'
main.cpp: In function 'void checkXShm(Tk_Window_*, const char*)':
main.cpp:296: error: 'XSync' was not declared in this scope
main.cpp: In function 'int main(int, const char**)':
main.cpp:527: error: invalid conversion from 'int (*)(void*, Tcl_Interp*, int, char**)' to 'int (*)(void*, Tcl_Interp*, int, const char**)'
main.cpp:527: error:   initializing argument 2 of 'void Tcl::CreateCommand(const char*, int (*)(void*, Tcl_Interp*, int, const char**), void*, void (*)(void*))'

I don't know if this is to do with the difference in the Tcl versions, or because I didn't run configure correctly.

Has anyone managed to compile this?  If so, what did you do?  Also, how do I compile in support for the camera (presumably quicktime)?

Thanks,

Andrew :)

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-----Original Message-----
From: p.ohanlon at gmail.com [mailto:p.ohanlon at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Piers O'Hanlon
Sent: 20 November 2007 18:04
To: Andrew.Rowley at manchester.ac.uk
Cc: sumover-tech at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [Sumover-tech] Vic on a Mac

what happend when you run configure - does it say it's using AquaTCL
or UCL? If it isn't using AquaTCL then it UCL tcl needs the Apple X11
server running (install it from the Install DVD). Otherwise if you
want Aqua vbersion you need to get AquaTCL from activestate.

But you should be able to run it on the cmd lin ok.

Piers

On 20/11/2007, Andrew Rowley <Andrew.Rowley at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Do you have any instructions on how to compile vic on Mac OS X?  I have tried to do it using the unix instructions.  This does work, but doesn't let you run it from the normal command line (only the xterm command line) and doesn't give you any OS X devices (like the camera).  I know that the AGTk vic can be launched from the normal command line, so I think there must be another trick to it...
>
> Andrew :)
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